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The life-size sculpture Unmündig by Vasil Berela is on view in the exhibition The Shared Now at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg through September 6, 2026. Vasil Berela Unmündig, 2019 Epoxy, fabric, bowls, figure Life-size Unmündig unfolds as a quiet meditation on the paradox of freedom: a seated figure immerses its feet into a single bowl of water while surrounding vessels, some filled, others empty, remain untouched like dormant possibilities. Each bowl suggests an alternate condition of being, a different relation to the world, yet the figure persists within the safety of the familiar, suspended between comfort and paralysis. Rather than portraying immaturity as the result of external control, the installation frames it as a self-imposed state, born from the refusal to enter uncertainty and the fear of abandoning already known structures. In this fragile stillness, the work reflects on the human tendency to remain enclosed within inherited patterns even when countless horizons remain open. The surrounding bowls become metaphors for unrealized selves, lives never entered, experiences left untested. Unmündig ultimately questions whether stability can quietly transform into stagnation, and whether the greatest limits placed upon us are not enforced from outside, but constructed through our own hesitation to move beyond the worlds we already know. The Shared Now Emma Adler, Vasil Berela, Judith Blum Reddy, Kurt Buchwald, Göran Gnaudschun, Susie Hamilton, Mathilde Tijen Hansen, Susann Maria Hempel, Anna Jermolaewa, Sven Johne, Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Christiane Möbus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulf Puder, Baldur Schönfelder, Igor Simić April 28 – September 06, 2026 Kunstmuseum Magdeburg Regierungsstr. 4–6, 39104 Magdeburg

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